MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 110511s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011020025
020 $a9781614700678 (hardcover)
035 $a(DNLM)101560440
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050 00 $aR853.C55$bV46 2012
060 10 $aQV 771
082 00 $a615/.10724$223
100 1 $aVentegodt, Søren.
245 10 $aRandomized clinical trials and placebo :$bcan you trust the drugs are working and safe? /$cSøren Ventegodt and Joav Merrick.
260 $aNew York :$bNova Science Publishers,$cc2012.
300 $aviii, 182 p. ;$c27 cm.
490 0 $aHealth and human development
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe errors and deficiencies of the randomised, clinical trial (RCT) -- Problems with the premises of the RCT-- Passive or active placebo? -- Measuring the effect of drugs in RTC. -- The observation time of the randomised clinical trial (RCT) -- Efficacy of biomedicine in general practice -- The cost of a patient cured with biomedicine compared to the original, Hippocratic, holistic medicine -- The chemical medicine's efficacy in the serious diseases. Somatic medicine : cancer and coronary heart disease. Psychiatry : depression and schizophrenia -- The marketing strategy and the values of Big Pharma -- Biomedicine and holistic medicine in conflict -- How do we develop medicine from being poisonous drugs into being an efficient and safe medicine? -- Conclusion : the pharmaceutical industry sells poisons as medicine and knows that the documentation should be better -- Scientific résumé.
650 0 $aClinical trials.
650 0 $aPlacebos (Medicine)
650 0 $aDrugs$xToxicology.
650 12 $aRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic.
650 22 $aDrug Toxicity.
650 22 $aPlacebos.
650 22 $aTreatment Outcome.
700 1 $aMerrick, Joav,$d1950-